ABFG services available

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I suspect that many forum users are perhaps unaware that the Association runs a wide-ranging service to field mycologists. This includes a comprehensive range of stains and reagents that we send as far distant as the USA. Why are these chemicals available only to members? Legally we are not a trading company and our charitable status restricts what we can and cannot do commercially. However, no less importantly, many of the reagents used are highly toxic and we need to keep careful control on who obtains them. It is the main reason, for example, why it is difficult to obtain Melzers Reagent other than through the ABFG.

Membership for an individual is not expensive; it costs £20 annually and brings many other benefits, including the quarterly Forayer magazine that regularly runs articles, incidentally, on the use of stains and reagents. Once you are a member, the full range of stains and reagents, from KOH to Melzers, to such 'rare' stains as Chlorazol Black E, becomes available to you.

MJ